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This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.

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The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
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Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]
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The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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Posterity will pay everyone their due.
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